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Neptuny warns companies to plan ahead for Bluetooth/WiFi advances
Neptuny, the IP network planning and capacity management specialist, has warned organisations offering Internet services to the public, as well as those firms using intranets, to prepare for a revolution in wireless technology that is coming in the next 12 months.
"The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has this week announced a major enhancement to the Bluetooth personal area network standard that allows compatible devices to hop on to WiFi networks whenever extra range and/or bandwidth is required," said Fabio Violante, Neptuny's founder and CEO.
"This enhancement, which essentially makes Bluetooth devices capable of handing off data calls to WiFi networks - and vice versa - is known as alternate MAC/PHY and will be seen in the Bluetooth 3.0 standard due out later this year," he added.
According to Violante, Bluetooth PAN technology was designed as a short-range standard for use by voice accessories on mobile phones, but is now poised for use with mobile data.
"The main limitation with WiFi on mobile phones has always been battery life issues, but a Bluetooth 3.0-enabled mobile phone will be able to hop between Bluetooth and WiFi at will, meaning that many more mobile devices will start using WiFi services," he said.
"As a result of this breakthrough, any organisation offering user-facing Internet or intranet facilities can expect to see a surge in their WiFi bandwidth usage as hundreds of millions of mobile phone users start to come on-stream. The need to plan ahead has never been greater," he added.
For more the Bluetooth/WiFi technology breakthrough: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021102495.html 18.02.2008, Neptuny
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